In musical terms, the 2014 food offerings at the M&T Syracuse Jazz Fest will resemble the grub provided in previous years the way Wynton Marsalis resembles a kazoo band.

The Chicken Bandit food truck Don Cazentre

This year's jazz fest, to be held Friday and Saturday in a return to the Onondaga Community College campus (schedule below), will feature gourmet-style food trucks from Syracuse and Rochester, local craft beer and wines from an Onondaga County vineyard.

"We are not a food fest, but we understand that people are going to be out there for six hours and we want to provide amenities," said fest director Frank Malfitano. "At the same time, we understand our audience is looking for something different, something creative."

Malfitano said recruiting food trucks and craft beer seemed like a natural. "It's not totally trendy, but these are things whose time has come," he said.

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